Trafficking in Persons Report

    The Trafficking in Persons report however remains to be extremely politically motivated carrying a large bias. A strong example of one of the bias that the United States gives off is the rating that China received in the most recent scorecard. China received a rating of Tier 3 which is the highest on the scorecard, meaning that China is not doing well whatsoever at combating human trafficking. It has been suggested, however, that the Trump administration has given this score based on their negative bond with China as a whole and decided to rebuke it by grouping it with North Korea, Iran and Syria, three similar countries that America is currently not on good terms with. America continues to keep a focus on other countries stances on human trafficking in order to easily prosecute criminals of other countries in America’s favor, thus hindering the legibility of the report.

    The questioning of viability of this report continues as human trafficking is comprised of a number of crimes including, but not limited to, documentation forgery, fraudulent promises, kidnapping and immigration law abuse. The multiplicity of crimes make it rather difficult to rate countries based on the one crime, which is why it may become easy to falsify scorecards, especially when it is America rating itself. Scoping the analysis of the scorecard we were able to find out that “There were only 13 prosecutions of labor trafficking cases in the United States, which is a shockingly low number and entirely inadequate given the scope of the problem.” However recent reports have established that due to an extreme amount of deportation cases occurring it makes it difficult for migrants to report crimes, in fear that they will not receive immunity and be deported as well.